The Kappa League is cleaning up the historic Black Spartanburg graveyard, the East Spartanburg Cemetery, while a county ...

The Plymouth Historical Museum's new exhibit tells the story of George Jackson, a free Black man who married a white woman in ...

Deep in Sumter County, Georgia, we document the collapsing remains of a one-room African American schoolhouse believed to date back to the late 1800s, built not long after emancipation. Just steps ...

Poet Phyllis Wheatley, born in 1753, was freed on this day in 1773. Kidnapped in Africa and sold as a slave when she was only ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

National Park Service removes slavery exhibits from Philadelphia’s President’s House memorial, sparking outrage and a legal challenge.

A proclamation recognizing and honouring the impact of Black Canadians, past and present, was made at Shelburne council’s Jan. 26 meeting at Town Hall.

Following the Revolution, members of the Black Vassall family moved to the area that would come to be known as Lewisville, ...

Most people assume slavery ended across North America at roughly the same time, but the timeline tells a very different story ...

Ours is a history in which robber barons used the promise of belonging to splinter the poor into warring factions. Sound ...